Overview
- Assam’s cabinet approved placing the Tewary/Tiwari Commission report before the Assembly and circulating hard and soft copies, and the chief minister said the House will not debate it.
- A separate non-government inquiry led by Justice Mehta will also be tabled alongside the official report.
- Set up on 14 July 1983 and submitted in May 1984, the commission examined the February 18 Nellie killings and related violence, but its report stayed out of public circulation for decades.
- Figures cited by The Crosscurrent from the report list 8,019 incidents in 1983 with 2,072 deaths, and they record large-scale homelessness and displacement to relief camps.
- Prominent citizens urged restraint and cautioned against politicisation, noting panel readings that many recorded incidents were described as sporadic rather than a single communal campaign.